Insurrection was hyped for months in advance here in Australia with print ads, radio ads, and a flood of TV spots. Nemesis was MIA from just about every promotion tool available. Paramount dropped the ball of this one in a huge way.
My partner and I had been to the cinema every week for months leading up to Nemesis and NOT ONCE was there a trailer shown in ANY other film session. I have friends who reported the same thing. The only trailer we saw was downloaded from the website. In this day and age of huge multi-media bombardment over the most banal films, it's obvious that Paramount never even tried to make this film work.

The two major cinema chains scheduled only minimal sessions per day and at inconvenient hours as well. For example the movie was only offered for the Gold Class seating at only 1 session per day instead of the 5 or 6 sessions that most new movies would receive and even then only at 9:50 PM each night!

Combined with the lack of promotion by Paramount and the awful scheduling of the movies by the cinema chains, I would rate Nemesis a huge success here in Australia to take the number 1 position.

One of the other threads is titled Sad News but I think it's the exact oposite. The only reason a wider audience was not reached is entirely Paramounts fault.

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It doesn't look like Nemesis will surpass $75 million worldwide, which, if memory serves, was ST5's more than a decade ago. Whether you liked Nemesis or not, the poor financial performance of the movie makes another Trek movie unlikely. Maybe now the suits will focus exclusively on bringing Enterprise up to par.

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Did anyone notice that when the Oscar nominees were announced this morning, NOT ONE single nomination was made for NEMESIS? The horror, the outrage...and we're not even talking about the 'big' categories like Best Picture or Best Director (Condolences to master Rick Berman, I know he must have been sorely disappointed). Not even for the technical categories that make Star Trek films a force to be reckoned with in theaters...

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I'm not native english speaking. Do you say, that Nemesis earned 788.000 in Australia for ONE WEEK, compared to ONE WEEK Insurrection for 1.700.532 in Astralia... Or do you mean, one weekend vs one week?

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oh my goodness there's just NO excuse for me to get away with writing such a typo ridden post like that at 3pm! I really should start using that preview thing ;)

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Nemesis had all the right buttons there waiting to be pressed, but like Data on a Reman keypad Paramount seem to have pushed the wrong ones. :/

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What awful box office figures. The UK hardly rakes it in, but you can't help but understand why Paramount can't be arsed releasing it in some places outside its four biggest markets. At least it got top spot though - yay! Do you thik they've realised they should have help back the release yet? Nah, me either.

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Nemesis had all the right buttons there waiting to be pressed, but like Data on a Reman keypad Paramount seem to have pushed the wrong ones. :/

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